It looks like Stik is busy with his new job and can't participate. I don't really want to recruit new players so perhaps we should just stop the game. Thank you for both for playing and I hope your new employment is working out well, Stik. Busy is putting it mildly, but that is only part of the pro...

" Good trade, my friend. An axe for a new wardrobe. Height might work, but you'll probably have to let the stuff out at the sides to get it to fit. " And a young lady's diary. What a find that is. I'll bet you reprobates can't wait to read all her musings about boys. " Darius' tone is...

"I don't do locks. We might look around for a key, no?" Darius pauses, then says: "I wonder if you are going about this the right way, though. Seems to me that another part of the box might be weaker than the lock. Like the hinges. Or the bottom."

Darius stands outside the room, trying to remain aloof. His pleas for restraint have gone unheeded, and now his companions seem intent upon trashing the entire house. " Magic or not, things are not as they seem, friends. And if you keep disassembling every bit of this place, I shall have very l...

Darius sees no point in trying to get closer to the snake. It can only complicate things. So he keeps his distance and keeps an eye out for any other threats.

Oh, I thought the game was dead. What is DArius going to do? Apologies, Masuro. I just started a new job after having been unemployed for quite a while. As a result, I suddenly have a lot less time to spend on the internet. I am not leaving the game, but my posting may be a bit sporadic until I get...

Certainly. Lead on, Baltir.

"So I guess the thought of poison has never occurred to you two?"

"Stop being so dramatic..." Darius mutters, "It's only my job. Do I go where you work and knock the shovel out of your hands?"
"You may have just ruined someone else's dinner party. You know that, right?"

Darius calls out, even more loudly: "I said: 'Without further ado, I give you our hosts!'
"Where are you? Time to come out and make your entrance!"

" Isn't this nice? " Darius looks on the scene with suspicion. " If this were a story, we'd have several possible explanations for what we see before us: " A - The food and drink is not real, and is just an illusion of some sort. " B - The food and drink are real, and have b...

"If there's anything nasty in here, it will have a harder time surprising us from behind a door than from behind a curtain, so let's see to the curtain first."

Maybe it's not a couch.
"Seeing as we'll be wanting all new furniture anyway, maybe now would be a good time to start getting rid of the old stuff."
So saying, Darius gives the sofa a nudge with the butt end of his spear.

"Somebody likes this furniture. Somebody who doesn't touch the ground when he walks. There are spells one can cast to tidy up, but why tidy up just a few pieces?"

I'm so glad that you got the reference. :) Dreganor - The Monty Python sketch in question concerns an incompetent and completely unprepared man hiring people for a planned expedition to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. It is revealed as the sketch progresses that the previous year his equally incompetent brot...

" You people should bottle taciturn . " Darius looks around the room with a critical eye. " It's not wet in here, well, not overly wet, which means the roof is mostly intact. If it weren't, then the rain would be getting in and damaging the structure. I mean, sure, the furnishings are...

"The object of this year's expedition is see if we can find any traces of last year's expedition..."

" We'll air the place out, paint it, refurnish it, and open it as a resort. " Darius says, looking around. " I don't know why nobody has done so already. Think of it: the sea air, away from the smell of the crowded city. It will make me rich. I mean us. Rich, I mean. " While he t...

The word you are looking for, I think, is 'foyer.' " So look who's being careful now, " Darius smirks. Using his spear, he disrupts the mat, putting the point underneath and lifting up the edge to roll it over on itself. If there's anything nasty under it, it's getting a face full of spear.

"Lead on, my friend."